The day he was sworn in as speaker of the Missouri House, Jon Patterson declared that defining fetal viability could be a difficult task. A surgeon serving his fourth term in the legislature, ...

Kate Dineen was about 33 weeks pregnant with her second child when an ultrasound revealed that her baby had suffered a catastrophic stroke in utero and would likely either die before birth or have a ...

Abortion policy in the U.S. often focuses on fetal viability and fails to address the concerns of actual pregnant people. John Fedele/Tetra Images via GettyImages During the 2024 presidential campaign ...

House Speaker Jon Patterson delivers his opening day speech Wednesday to the Missouri House (Tim Bommel/Missouri House Communications). The day he was sworn in as speaker of the Missouri House, Jon ...

Fetal viability may be the crux of how anti-abortion lawmakers target the procedure. The constitutional amendment approved by voters protects abortion access up until the point of fetal viability, the ...